VSB ENGINEERING COLLEGE, KARUR 639 111

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

OAI551 Environment and Agriculture

III Year V Semester Civil Engineering

UNIT 1 Environmental Concerns

Environmental for Agriculture and Food – Land use and Landscape changes –Water
Quality issues – Changing social structure and economic focus – Globalization and its
impacts – Agro ecosystems

Part - A

1. What are all the environmental basis for agriculture and food?
2. Define agricultural bio diversity.
3. Write the key roles of Agricultural biodiversity.
4. Define land use.
5. How does land use varies from area to area. Explain.
6. What are the effects of land use change?
7. Write the zones of land use.
8. Differentiate between Rural urban fringe and suburbs.
9. Explain the term land cover change.
10. Give an outline of climatic impact of land use change.
11. Show the types of land use.
12. What do you infer from the landscape change?
13. List four stages of landscape change.
14. Categorize the water quality issues.
15. What are the adverse impacts on natural resources?
16. Explain about CAP (Common Agricultural Policy).
17. What are the major causes of pollution?
18. Define Globalization. Also give its importance.
19. Explain the term agro ecosystem.
20. Why AESA is needed?

Part B

1. Explain about land use zones.

2. Describe briefly types of land use in India.
3. Write notes on four major stages of landscape change and effects of landscape change on
species and population.
4. Give notes on categories of water pollution.
5. Explain about types of water contamination.
6. Write a detailed study about major water pollution in india.
7. Enumerate and explain the causes, effects and solution for water pollution in india.
8. How is social change explained by Comte, Spencer and Marx.
9. Explain the functionalist perspective of social change.
10. How does conflict theory contribute to our understanding of social change?
11. What are the impacts, benefits and disadvantages of globalization in india?
12. List the types of globalization and explain in detail.
13. Define agro ecosystem and explain its methodology.
14. Write down the methodology of AESA?
Part – C
1. What are the major environmental concerns? Explain Briefly.
2. How do you implement AESA? Write down the various stages in implementation.
3. What are categories of major water pollutants in agriculture and explain the relative
contributions of any three main agricultural production systems.
4. What is Globalization? Write down the impact of globalization on agriculture in india.
Also explain the benefits and risks.

Unit II ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

Irrigation development and watersheds – mechanized agriculture and soil cover impacts –
Erosion and problems of deposition in irrigation systems – Agricultural drainage and
downstream impacts – Agriculture versus urban impacts.

Part A

1. Define watershed.
2. Define monoculture.
3. What is meant by mechanized agriculture?
4. List out soil cover impacts.
5. What is the role of irrigation in agricultural development?
6. Explain agricultural drainage.
7. What are the advantages of mechanized agriculture?
8. What is the role of mechanization of sustainability?
9. List the environmental impacts of different aspects of intensification.
10. How mechanization improved agricultural production?
11. What are the limitation of farm mechanization?
12. How can irrigation affect erosion?
13. What is the importance of erosion control?
14. Analyze the ill effects of over irrigation.
15. Explain the possible result of increased irrigation of agricultural fields.
16. How can you limit the impact of irrigation?
 17. Why urban agriculture is important?
18. Generalize about the agricultural pollution.
19. Distinguish between the organic culture and monoculture.
20. Summarize about the watershed management in india.
Part B
1. What is meant by watershed? Explain any two watershed scheme.
2. Briefly explain watershed management in india.
3. Write notes on a) watershed management b) watershed development.
4. Define mechanised agriculture. What are the systems available? Explain any two of them.
5. Explain mechanized agriculture with their technologies.
6. Explain mechanized agriculture with their advantages and disadvantages.
7. What is meant by soilcover and its impacts. Explain it.
8. Explain soil erosion problems in irrigation systems.
9. How does irrigation prevent soil erosion? Explain with neat sketches.
10. Write short notes on mechanised agriculture, problems in irrigation systems and urban
impacts.
11. Explain agricultural drainage and downstream impacts with detail.
12. Compare mechanized agriculture and drainage agriculture.
13. Write notes on watershed programmes in india.
14. Define erosion. What are the approaches to controlling erosion in rural areas?
Part C
1. What you know about watershed management? Write about their agricultural
practices with examples.
2. What are the impact of agricultural activities on urbanization. Explain with
suitable examples.
3. What are the importance and challenge of irrigation induced erosion. What
kind of remedial measures we can take?
4. Do you know about “Beyond modern land drainage”? List out the factors
when considering an agricultural drainage system.
UNIT III CLIMATE CHANGE
Global warming and changing environment – Ecosystem changes – changing
blue-green-grey water cycles – Water scarcity and water shortages –
desertification
Part A
1. How does climate change affect us?
2. What are the causes of global warming?
3. How does global warming affect the ocean?
4. What is meant by global warming?
5. What is meant by ecosystem changes?
6. What are the three things that can cause an ecosystem to change?
7. What ecosystems are affected by climate change?
8. What factors are affecting ecosystems all over the world?
9. What is the difference between blue water and green water?
10. What is green water?
11. How is grey water footprint determined?
12. What is included in the calculation of virtual water usage?
13. How does water scarcity affect india?
14. What are the problems shortage affect the environment?
15. Which countries suffer from water scarcity?
16. What is meant by desertification?
17. How does global warming affect human health? With example.
18. What is process of Desertification?
19. What are the main causes of Desertification?
20. what is climate changing issue?
Part B
1. What is global warming with non-human activities